Drs. Anne Marie Api and Danielle Botelho present on RIFM’s safety assessment and research in India
10.24.24
The Research Institute for Fragrance Materials’ President Anne Marie Api, PhD, Fellow ATS, and Director of Scientific Operations Danielle Botelho, PhD, will participate at the 3rd Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) International Fragrance Business Summit in Lucknow, India, October 25, 2024.
Drs. Api and Botelho will present on RIFM’s world-renowned safety assessment program and longstanding, cutting-edge collaborative research into animal-free new approach methodologies (NAMs). Their presentations occur during the Harmonizing Fragrance Safety: Creating Global Standards for Consumer Protection session from 3:00 to 4:30 PM India Standard Time (IST).
“RIFM recognizes the critical role emerging markets play in not just ensuring the safe use of fragranced products,” Dr. Botelho explained, “but also in helping us refine and communicate benchmarks for safe use globally. RIFM’s next-generation risk assessments help define safe use internationally through maximum acceptable concentration, or MAC, values applied across the full spectrum of fragranced products. These MAC values are based on real-world exposure to fragrance from all products used and form the basis for the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) Standards.”
“RIFM collaborates with governmental agencies and internationally recognized academic and independent research institutions worldwide to ensure that its science is reproducible by independent scientists,” Dr. Api said. “For example, we engaged in an ongoing collaboration between RIFM and the Government of India’s Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), a wing of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Using RIFM’s NAMs-focused Criteria Document, the peer-reviewed paper that guides RIFM’s Safety Assessment process, IITR scientists analyzed and wrote up independent safety assessments for four fragrance materials to see how closely their conclusions would echo RIFM’s. Their analyses and conclusions matched RIFM’s for all four, and they published one of their assessments in their 2019-2020 Annual Report.”
“We welcome this incredible chance to present and highlight some of RIFM’s critical work and gain insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by Indian fragrance safety stakeholders,” Dr. Api concluded. “We look forward to an engaging and insightful discussion.”